Six Simple Steps to Optimize your Blog’s Video Content on YouTube

This is a guest contribution from Praveenkumar Mavi, of Just2clik Blog

YouTube is a widely-used search engine for videos its value shouldn’t be underestimated. There are millions of videos daily uploaded onto YouTube, so it is very important to optimize your videos at their top level to get more hits and even front page ranking. To do this, we need to keep in mind a few important points:

1. The first and most important thing is keyword setup. This, of course, depends on your video content. Let us assume 3-4 titles for your video and start searching on Google. If you find videos in the search results of your title, then go for one of the other titles until you’ve found no other (or nearly no other) videos with the same name. Then assign this title to your video.

2. The second step is to describe your video. Your video description should contain your video title, this helps to show in bold on search results. You should also be very clear in your description and try to include as much information as you can without turning it into a long-winded and confusing blurb. Attracting description results in more hits for your video.

3. Tags are the third step – assigning tags to your video is as simple as copy and paste. For example if your video title is ‘Simple steps to optimize your Facebook fan page’ then your tags should be Facebook, simple steps, optimization, Fan page, etc.

4. Upload high definition videos if you can. Don’t go for standard definition videos, because YouTube wants to provide best possible experience for end users, and will prioritize those in HD. This really plays an important role in ranking your videos.

5. The most killer tip for optimizing your video content is to generate a transcription for your video. Include subtitles for your video. Create a 300-400 word description in the transcription, and more importantly add your website URL at the top/bottom of your description. This will help the end user to understand what your video content is about.

6. Finally, promote your video by sending emails with a link to your video and to your channel subscription. Try to respond to comments.

Praveenkumar is the Founder and editor of Just2clik Blog, In this blog you’ll find a very simple yet more effective tutorials about blogging, Computers and Mobiles. You can find him on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn.

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Video submission in youtube is very effective method to promote your product and your information. Today every user use youtube for learning and entertainment. I do agree with your six step and i will follow your all guideline.

It’s true that YouTube has been the widely used video-sharing platform online, and it’s been very helpful in terms of business promotion.

So as for this fact, it’s just reasonable for you, as a business, to optimize your videos in order to get more hits and or even front page ranking. These tips shared above would be helpful for you, and I must agree that they are valuable to be followed to optimize your video content on YouTube.

As what is said above, the first thing that you should do is to set the keyword setup, which is the most important thing to give attention to. Describe your video, assign tags and include transcription, which can really be useful for viewers to understand your video well.

You should also consider high definition videos to provide viewers the best possible resolution for better watching.

Excellent points! One other tip iI discovered and learned from a YouTube pro is to take the time and add the captions. This serves to put text with each spoken, and thus helps YT index and catalog more clearly with the keywords in your captions.

Wow i’m really surprised to see such inadequate advice on a website like this.

Tags alone is a huge piece of optimization work and the advice given here is not only simplistic but actually incorrect. I wrote an indepth guide on tags which was over 1500 words long – http://www.faqtube.tv/youtube-tags/ and here it is covered in just 44 words.

I think i need to contribute to pro-blogger because YouTube is such a complicated beast that the audience here deserve better.